[users] calc collaboration feature

2011-06-29 Thread Franz Waldmüller
Hi, I have got a question concerning your experiences with the collaboration feature of openoffice.org calc. Does this feature work well? Are there any problems likely to occur? I am aware of the limitations mentioned in:

[users] check if sheet is referenced

2011-02-02 Thread Franz Waldmüller
Hi, I have to tidy up a very huge spreadsheet. In this spreadsheet I have a lot of cross-sheet references e.g.: =(sheet_2.A3) I want to delete sheet which I don't need anymore. But first I have to check if another sheet needs a cell of the sheet which I want to delete. Thanks for your help

[users] [solved] Re: [users] check if sheet is referenced

2011-02-02 Thread Franz Waldmüller
Am 2011-02-02 23:27, schrieb Franz Waldmüller: Hi, I have to tidy up a very huge spreadsheet. In this spreadsheet I have a lot of cross-sheet references e.g.: =(sheet_2.A3) I want to delete sheet which I don't need anymore. But first I have to check if another sheet needs a cell of the sheet

Re: [users] Label printing

2010-04-05 Thread Franz Waldmüller
Hi Keith, Keith Clark schrieb: On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 14:15 -0700, RA Brown wrote: Hi Keith, Keith Clark wrote: I am trying to print pricing labels but am having absolutely no luck at all. All I get printed out are grey areas. It must be my basic setup versus the printer. I've tried an

Re: [users] Converting a Draw document to PDF.?

2010-03-31 Thread Franz Waldmüller
Hi James, James Elliott schrieb: I am using OOo Draw (version 3.2.0 running under Windows XP) to prepare a newsletter and need to send it to the print shop in PDF format. I would like to send it in as high a resolution as possible, preferably in pre-press form as offered in Corel Draw, so

Re: [users] Table entry editing

2010-03-30 Thread Franz Waldmüller
Hi Bashar, Bashar Maree schrieb: I'm working on a document with a very long 'Table of Figures'. The first entry in the table is the figure number (Figure xx.yy where xx is the chapter number and yy is the figure number within the chapter). Is it possible to remove the word 'Figure' and just

Re: [users] eneral question about Draw.?

2010-03-30 Thread Franz Waldmüller
Hi James, James Elliott schrieb: I have been using OOo since version 1.0 and love it. Great Recently I have had some lessons at work in using Corel Draw and Adobe Illustrator. If you are looking for some more advanced graphics applications than OOo-Draw you could take a look at inkscape

Re: [users] checksum

2010-01-08 Thread Franz Waldmüller
josef muck wrote: Dear Sir Dear Madam, I am currently writing a thesis on INTEGRITY AND AUTHENTICITY OF DATA FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF THE WEB at the University in Graz, Austria. Do you provide at your download site a possibility to check the integrity? For example: hashes, MD5, SHA-XXX, etc. If

Re: [users] Draw tutorial?

2009-12-09 Thread Franz Waldmüller
David B Teague schrieb: [snip] I should have mentioned my specific application. I have an image obtained from a screen snapshot. I then save in the (painfully primitive) Paint utility. I could save in several graphics formats (but not the native Draw format). I'd save it in Draw directly,

Re: [users] Is ther e a utility to measure the distance between two frames? CORRECTION IN BLUE

2009-12-09 Thread Franz Waldmüller
John Gilchrist schrieb: Dear Joseph and Michael, Here is an example: I am making a presentation. On one page I have three text frames. All three text frames are sitting on the page one frame on top of another, all set to Horizontal Center - NO Problem. Each frame has a different vertical

Re: [users] Re: Save Cell range as csv

2009-12-03 Thread Franz Waldmüller
Andreas Saeger schrieb: Franz Waldmüller wrote: I am looking for an extension macro which enables me to save a certain (selected) cell range of a sheet to a csv file. If I am right I remember using a macro or extension before. I am work on a fresh ubuntu 9.10 install and spend a lot of time

Re: [users] OT: MS Support for ODF [Fwd: OpenOffice.org Ninja]

2009-05-07 Thread Franz Waldmüller
Dotan Cohen schrieb: The truth is, I don't like playing follow the leader either. But in this unique example, I do say that OOo should play by MS's rules, Once you play the rules of MS you have to stick with its rules. If they change the rendering once again you have to adopt it. MS focused on

Re: [users] good job - Impress - export to HTML

2009-04-29 Thread Franz Waldmüller
Web Kracked schrieb: I tried this maybe a year ago with Powerpoint, but it did not work, I took an Impress slide show of 47 slides and exported it to HTML and it worked. the flash export works quite well, too Franz - To

Re: [users] Cannot password protect .xls files using Calc ?

2009-04-28 Thread Franz Waldmüller
Cannot password protect .xls files using Calc.? Furthermore, password protected files opened with Calc appear to be read-only. I deal with sensitive (HR) data and regularly need to password protect files being sent by email. You should use the generic ods-format. Then your files will be

[users] copy master slide to create a modified version

2009-04-27 Thread Franz Waldmüller
hi, I want to create a second master slide and I want to use the existing master as a template. I thought that it should be possible to copy this with a right click or with edit copy. But when I select the first master slide in the presentation (Of course in the master view) a right click

Re: [users] copy master slide to create a modified version

2009-04-27 Thread Franz Waldmüller
I added information on the operating system I tried this on OpenOffice 2.4.1 and on OpenOffice 3.0 RC1 Both versions run on ubuntu 8.04 The 2.4.1 is the OpenOffice out of the ubuntu repositories and the 3.0 RC1 is the build from the OpenOffice.org homepage. Thanks Franz

Re: [users] OO.o Writer takes 6 min to open a file

2009-04-15 Thread Franz Waldmüller
How close to full is your disk? How fragmented is it? An overly fragmented disk is a frequent cause of deteriorating performance. See if a de-frag helps. Although this loading time does not seam to be caused by a defragmented disk, when talking about defragmentation on Windows Systems I have

Re: [users] OO.o Writer takes 6 min to open a file [OT]

2009-04-15 Thread Franz Waldmüller
David B Teague schrieb: An odt file is really a zip file, that when renamed ZIP, can be opened as a compressed folder, which then contains several other files and folders. All the data is in xml files with a few other files. I looked at them with NotePad. You might want to try

Re: [users] is open office free to use in internet cafe?

2009-04-14 Thread Franz Waldmüller
ShiLiang schrieb: hi, My friend want to open an internet cafe and we are not sure about if its legal to download and install the open office on his machines. so... if its not, how much does he need to pay for about 40 computers? and how? When opening a internet café I would strongly

Re: [users] is open office free to use in internet cafe?

2009-04-14 Thread Franz Waldmüller
ShiLiang schrieb: hi, My friend want to open an internet cafe and we are not sure about if its legal to download and install the open office on his machines. so... if its not, how much does he need to pay for about 40 computers? and how? I just did some research for the setup of the

Re: [users] Setting UserInstallation upon setup !

2009-04-08 Thread Franz Waldmüller
Keith Bainbridge schrieb: Yes Early in the install process there is anoption button 'advanced'. One of these options lets you specify the install directory; and you could specify f:\ another option is to use the portable version (attention larger memory footprint) Can be installed to usb

Re: [users] printing labels from spreadsheet data

2009-04-07 Thread Franz Waldmüller
John Stile schrieb: I need to print spreadsheet data on an Avery template for my labels. I found a compatible .doc on the Avery web site, but haven't found how to fill in the data. I never used OpenOffice to print labels. If you are using Linux, glables is designed to import prepared data and

Re: [users] open office bad result

2009-04-06 Thread Franz Waldmüller
oscarl...@telmex.net.co schrieb: I was testing your openoffice application trying to move from microsoft office to your product but I found it is not as reliable as I expected. As you can see in the attached image the formula cells has not any text or zero value, I tripled check this even

Re: [users] MS Word

2009-04-06 Thread Franz Waldmüller
donald pric schrieb: Dear Users: I want to install Open Office and uninstall MS Office. Will my Word documents be able to be opened by non-Open Office people if I accept all file extensions during the Open Office download. When not saving to the default Open Document Format there may be some

Re: [users] alternatives for MS Outlook and MS Frontpage

2009-04-06 Thread Franz Waldmüller
jonathon schrieb: jonathon thanks for the list, I would like to add to alternatives: * Microsoft Visio: OOo Draw; check out DIA http://dia-installer.de/index_de.html * Microsoft Project:OOo template and macros with this functionality check out ganttproject:

Re: [users] Cannot install OOo at all

2009-03-27 Thread Franz Waldmüller
Charles T. Bell schrieb: I am running Kubuntu 8.10 AMD64, KDE 4.1.4, and cannot install OOo 3.0.x any way, shape or fashion. I tried installing with Adept, apt-get and Synaptic, no go; unresolved dependencies. I tried to download and configure-make-makeinstall the files from Open Office Org;

Re: [users] Re: Cannot install OOo at all

2009-03-27 Thread Franz Waldmüller
Russell Butler schrieb: Assuming he doesn't want the German version. thanks for the correct link, forgot to link to the English version. Charles, Russel and me provided you with a direct link in order to facilitate the download. If you need another language got to http://www.openoffice.org/

Re: [users] Go To in Calc

2009-03-24 Thread Franz Waldmüller
Walter Hildebrandt schrieb: I have a large spreadsheet. Is there a Go To command to go to a specific cell. For example, Is there some way to name a call and then use that name in a Go To command so that named cell appears on the screen? In a large spreadsheet I recently added a sheet called